MANTEL

The Family Archive

Preserve your family’s story for every generation that follows.

A one-time founding fee secures your family’s archive for life — with no subscriptions, no renewals, and no expiration. Your history belongs to your family, not to a billing cycle.

Founding Families — Limited to 100

We are offering founding-member pricing to the first 100 families. When the roster is full, this pricing closes.

26 of 100 founding memberships remain.

I.

Hearth

$99

one time · founding price $99

The archive includes
  • Lifetime archive hosting
  • 50 transcription credits(≈ 50 documents digitized)
  • Full Keeper toolkitfamily tree, profiles, upload, people-tagging, archive search
  • Private-by-default archive
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
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II.

Mantel

$199$149

one time · founding price $149

Everything in Hearth, plus
  • 250 transcription credits(≈ 250 documents digitized)
  • Public previewshare your last 25 stories with the world
  • Referral program unlockedearn credits for every family you bring to the archive
  • “Founding Family” nameplate in your archive
III.

Legacy

$399

one time

Everything in Mantel, plus
  • 1,050 transcription credits(≈ 1,050 documents digitized)
  • Vanity slug reservationmantel.family/yourfamilyname
  • Priority transcription queue
  • Named in Founding Families public record
Transcription credits

Add more credits to your archive at any time.

Each credit unlocks one document transcription — title, full body text, people and places mentioned, and dates, extracted and indexed automatically. Credits never expire and roll over indefinitely.

PackCreditsPriceBest for
Tin100$10A single digitization session
Box500$40An active family's annual supply
Trunk2,000$120Power families and reunion archives
Vault10,000$500Full estate digitization events

Credit packs require a Mantel membership. Packs can be purchased at any time from your archive dashboard.

Already a member?

Share your referral code — both sides earn 50 credits when a new family joins the archive. Find your code in your archive’s Share-to-Earn panel.

  1. One-time founding fee covers archive hosting for as long as Mantel operates as a service.
  2. Storage up to 25 GB included per family. Above 25 GB, storage is billed at cost ($0.015 / GB / month).
  3. Credits roll over and never expire.
  4. 30-day money-back guarantee on all membership fees. After 30 days, no refunds; your data remains exportable at any time.
  5. If Mantel ceases operations, members receive 90 days’ notice and a full data export.